Example sentences of "of [pron] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dustin was so far ahead of me through the first half of the picture , it was n't even funny , ’ Peckinpah confessed . |
| 2 | She walked ahead of me on the narrow path ; she had slender legs and pretty ankles . |
| 3 | ‘ I felt I might have passed the pair in front of me on the last lap but what was the point , I had no chance of winning and this is a tough circuit . ’ |
| 4 | I did the business with my camera , now there was plenty of light with the barn doors open , and was in the process of replacing the tarpaulin when the alarm bells went off and scared the hell out of me for the second time in five minutes . |
| 5 | As the white cliffs of Dover receded and the coast of France drew near , the inimitable excitement of ‘ abroad ’ took hold of me for the first time — the only really positive emotion I had felt for twenty-six months . |
| 6 | ‘ I sent him ahead of me for the six-month quarantine , and the day he got out was one of the best days of my life . ’ |
| 7 | I started sweating when they called out the bloke ahead of me in the high jump . |
| 8 | I thought of nothing except the great happiness of being with him for ever . |
| 9 | They secured eight but also lost three wickets including two run outs , one of them off the last ball . |
| 10 | Although it is a newcomer to New York politics , the Coalition proved startlingly effective , distributing more than 100,000 voters ' guides , many of them through the Catholic church . |
| 11 | His hands rested on her shoulders and she could feel the warmth of them through the coarse material of her bodice . |
| 12 | SunSoft will begin offering Adobe imaging products for the Solaris 2. x operating system from the middle of next year , SunPics will have the stuff in Unix SVR4 versions of its print system during the second half of 1993 — both of them under the Open Look graphical interface ( UX No 405 ) . |
| 13 | Simply serve them in tiny bowls or hors-d'oeuvre dishes , or pile up little mounds of them beside the sliced lamb and beef . |
| 14 | Compaoré had earlier sought to appease opposition figures when on July 26 he brought a number of them into the transitional government . |
| 15 | In fact , the four cooking apples should have been five , but our continuing cashflow problems meant I had to disguise one of them as the reserve match ball . |
| 16 | I think of them as the sea-bird equivalent of a peregrine or other member of the falcon family . |
| 17 | They did not all give up there and then , but presumably went on to take the test again and eventually to pass — many of them at the second attempt . |
| 18 | His real advantage comes from being proficient in all of them at the same time , and this is a much rarer ability . |
| 19 | I said if yo if you think you know that you might be able to build a relationship I said then er you know , tell her so I said and do n't try and run the both of them at the same time I said |
| 20 | IR was born in America in the 1940s to service the nation 's host of small private investors ( 47m of them at the latest count ) . |
| 21 | These gestures can be seen in many Persian miniatures , some of them at the British Museum . |
| 22 | Some tests may involve chemicals which need to be handled with care , but this should not preclude the sale of them to the general public in kits which include protective goggles and detailed instructions on their handling . |
| 23 | The dream that had brought the two of them to the other side of the globe was wedging a distance between them . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm Loretta Lawson ’ , she said , returning and handing one of them to the American woman . |
| 25 | I adjusted one of them to the reclining position , lay back in it and closed my eyes . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's remarkable that , in addition to playing 11 cities around the country , the educational programme played to over 5,000 kids and brought many of them to the main theatre in their local cities for the first time in their lives , on subsidised tickets . |
| 27 | It is also provided that where a person , not named as a respondent , is in occupation , the originating application and other documents may be served by affixing a copy of them to the main door or other conspicuous part , and , if practicable , inserting them through the letter box , or by placing stakes in the ground with the documents ( in a transparent sealed envelope ) attached . |
| 28 | If both cooperate ( with each other , not with the authorities ) by refusing to speak , there is not enough evidence to convict either of them of the main crime , and they receive a small sentence for a lesser offence , the Reward for mutual cooperation . |
| 29 | But I 've seen a few of them on the slippery slope — the Shiny Set , the stars , the Washington |
| 30 | I can hear the two of them on the narrow stair outside , Summerchild placing his feet with ostentatious care on each step , bending his head rather further than is strictly necessary under the low ceiling , while Serafin demonstrates his effortless familiarity with such picturesque difficulties . |